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Rich Leyshon

Senior Data Scientist

Professional Experience

Senior Data Scientist, Levelling Up Squad

Office for National Statistics Data Science Campus

Newport, Wales

Jan 2022 to present

  • Undertaking research & analysis in the domain of socio-economic inequality across the UK.
  • Senior dev on multimodal transport modelling project with Open Trip Planner Java library, python GIS stack, Open Street Map & open source public transport schedule data. Innovative geometries published to ONS Geoportal as ESRI shapefiles. Subsequently used by Dept. for Levelling Up in analysing connectivity in Lincolnshire to help inform devolution deal.
  • Agent-based & network analysis techniques applied to policy prioritisation for UK local authorities progress against the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda. An innovative exploratory study in partnership with the Alan Turing Institute. Leads to cordial invitation to attend Policy Priorities & AI for SDGs (PPAI4SDG) Feb 2024 event as an expert panellist.
  • Shortlisted for the Analysis in Government Awards 2022 Inclusion category. Topic: Paving the way for accessible data science training in the public sector. Voted diversity & inclusion champion by Campus colleagues.

Data Science Lecturer, Campus Faculty

Office for National Statistics Data Science Campus

Newport, Wales

Apr 2020 to Jan 2022

  • Promoted to Faculty Lead in Autumn 2022.
  • Coordination in development of advanced geospatial methods training. Developed in collaboration with Ordnance Survey, I personally translated Ordnce Survey’s Python training into R. I then implemented a pilot of the course with the Data Science Graduate Programme cohort 2022, then coordinating the evaluation and improvement subsequent to rollout. This work subsequently won the Government Geography Profession’s award for contribution to public sector geography in the Government in Geography Awards 2023.
  • Delivering analytical training across UK public sector and international National Statistical Offices.
  • Guest speaker at Royal Statistical Society conference 2020, subject: reproducibility & transparency. Returning speaker at RSS 2021, topic: UK Data Science as a global public good.
  • Personally establishing the DSC capability diversity & inclusion process, process control, compliance and risk mitigation, allowing the campus to fulfill its duty under the equality & diversity act 2010.
  • Development of accessrmd package available on CRAN, used to help improve the accessibility of training materials for learners who benefit from the use of screen-readers.

Statistician

Data Cymru

Cardiff, Wales

Jan 2020 to Apr 2020

  • Automated cleaning & analysis of survey in R markdown.
  • Hypothesis testing with t-test, Mann-Whitney test and Monte Carlo power analysis, linear and logistic regression.
  • Automation of ETL pipelines in data transformation projects, ensuring at risk childrens’ care placements across authorities in Wales are securely updated and available to local authority stakeholders and Childrens’ Commissioning Consortium Cymru.

Financial Analyst

Wales Audit Office

Cardiff, Wales

Sep 2018 to Dec 2019

  • Automation of counter fraud and error risk testing of general ledger transactions.
  • Development of Power BI Dashboards & R Markdwown automated reports in order to support performance audit and thematic review.
  • Assisting in the delivery of Power BI education programme to internal and external stakeholders.

Teacher of Science

St Illtyd’s Catholic High School, Fitzalan and Bassaleg High School

Cardiff, Newport, Wales

2007 to 2017

  • Delivery of biology and physics education to A level.
  • Experienced in the effective communication of technical subject matter.
  • Differentiation of learning material to diverse student requirements.

Education

Acorn Learning Solutions

Diploma in Data Analytics

Cardiff, Wales

2018 to 2019

2 year course completed in 13 months

Modules:

  • Principles of Data Management Infrastructure, Data Analysis Tools, Data Science.
  • Statistical Analysis of large data.
  • Designing and Developing Event-Driven and procedural Computer Programs.
  • Advanced Data Representations and Manipulation.

University of Wales, Institute Cardiff

Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Science)

Cardiff, Wales

2006 to 2007

Cardiff University

Bsc (Hons) Biology, 2:1

Cardiff, Wales

2002 to 2005